Rated PG-13

There's a delicious smugness in reading about a teenager who gets busted for hosting a boozy party. It's even better when a parent is at home.
But this busted party has a sad side.
A Saturday night bash in Mountainside was attended by dozens of students from Union Catholic high school. Neighbors called when the teens acted as drunken teens will. Then the cops showed up. Police arrested almost 50 underage drinkers in the teenager's garage, which was overflowing with Jagermeister, hard liquor, beer and good times.
The archdicocese spokesman, aptly named Jim Goodness, says there may not be academic consequences for the imbibers, because the drinking was off-campus.
The teenager's father, Stefan Puzyk, was also charged. He was upstairs in his bedroom while his son's friends did some teen partying (this phrase, by the way, is now part of the official movie ratings system).
Why was this father of five alone, catatonic, helplessly standing by as his son's friends get drunk in his house? Because his wife died in April. He was immobilized by depression and as much as we tut-tut at indulgent parents, we think this guy deserves some sympathy.

Comments

maybe the son could try to some respect for his father instead of letting his friends trash the house.